743 Quotes by Simon Sinek

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Every company knows what they do Some know how they do it Very few know why

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.